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ACM Classic: Reflections on Trusting Trust
- http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
The Atanasoff Berry Computer
- http://www.cs.iastate.edu/jva/jva-archive.shtml
John V. Atanasoff: Obituary (June 1995)
- http://archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk/museums/computing/atanasoff.html
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
The Colossal Cave Adventure page
- http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/
The Computer Eyestrain Journal
- http://www.eye2eye.com/
Tom Duff on Duff's Device
- http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html
Tom Dunigan's Security page
- http://www.epm.ornl.gov/~dunigan/security.html
[fmII] - welcome to freshmeat.net
- http://freshmeat.net/
The FreeBSD Project
- http://www.freebsd.org/
GCC Home Page
- http://gcc.gnu.org/
GNUstep Homepage
- http://www.gnustep.org/
GNU's Not Unix! - the GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
- http://www.gnu.org/
The Halloween Documents
- http://www.opensource.org/halloween/
Jargon File Resources
- http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/
The Last Bug
- http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/last.bug.html
Linux Today - Linux News On Internet Time
- http://linuxtoday.com/
More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size
- http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/
The Retrocomputing Museum
- http://www.catb.org/~esr/retro/
The Silicon Valley Tarot
- http://www.svtarot.com/
10 Big Myths about copyright explained
- http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
The Virtual Museum of Computing
- http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/computing.html
Toward Critical Thinking
AAAS Dialog on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER)
- http://www.aaas.org/spp/dser/
What Is A Freethinker?
- http://www.ffrf.org/nontracts/freethinker.php
The Skeptic's Dictionary - A Guide for the New Millennium
- http://www.skepdic.com/
Eclectic
The American Association for the Advancement of Science
- http://www.aaas.org/
ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union
- http://aclu.org/
American Friends Service Committee
- http://www.afsc.org/
ARRL - The American Radio Relay League
- http://www.arrl.org/
Amnesty International
- http://www.amnesty.org/
Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
- http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
Bill of Rights Defense Committee
- http://www.bordc.org/
Canadian Space Agency - Agence spatiale canadienne
- http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/index.html
Jimmy Carter - Nobel Lecture
- http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/2002/carter-lecture.html
The Center for Democracy and Technology
- http://www.cdt.org/
The Central Council of Church Bell Ringers
- http://www.cccbr.org.uk/
China National Space Administration
- http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/main_e.asp
Dangerous Citizen
- http://www.dangerouscitizen.com/
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- http://www.eff.org/
ESA - The European Space Agency
- http://www.esa.int
Federation of American Scientists
- http://www.fas.org/
Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc.
- http://www.ffrf.org/
ibiblio.org - the Public's Library
- http://ibiblio.org/
Institute of Equity, Ecology, Humor and Art -- Stickers
- http://www.ieeha.org/stickers/
NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- http://www.nasa.gov/
The Nature Conservancy
- http://www.tnc.org/
Netaid.org
- http://www.netaid.org/
NPR Online
- http://www.npr.org/
Operation Respect: Don't Laugh at Me
- http://www.dontlaugh.org/
Oxford University Society of Change Ringers
- http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ouscr/
The Ringing World Online
- http://www.ringingworld.co.uk/
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
- http://www.slashdot.com/
The Southern Poverty Law Center
- http://www.splcenter.org/
Teaching Tolerance
- http://www.splcenter.org/center/tt/teach.jsp
Tolerance
- http://www.tolerance.org/
Tolerance.org: 101 Tools for Tolerance
- http://www.tolerance.org/101_tools/share.html
User Friendly Comic Strip - The Daily Static
- http://userfriendly.org/static/
Wired Magazine
- http://www.wired.com/
Where one can click to donate without spending a dime ...
These come and go, unfortunately.
The Hunger Site
- http://www.thehungersite.com/
The Rainforest Site
- http://www.therainforestsite.com/
The Breast Cancer Site
- http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/
The Animal Rescue Site
- http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/
The Child Health Site
- http://www.thechildhealthsite.com/
Care2's Race For The Rainforest!
- http://rainforest.care2.com/
"Not dead, in jail, or a slave? Thank a liberal." -- bumper sticker
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed
ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
"I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management." -- E.B. White (1899-1985)
"Life does not consist mainly -- or even largely of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head." -- Mark Twain, a pseudonym of Samuel Clemens (1835-1910)
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves." -- George Gordon Noel Byron (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. But when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. It may be the beginning of knowledge but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of science." -- William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, (1824-1907)
"A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion." -- Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)
"The great problem with religion -- any religion -- is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence." -- Hartley M. Baldwin, in the novel Friday by Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!" -- Monty Python's Flying Circus (a comedy programme on BBC from 5 Oct 1969 to 5 Dec 1974; actors and writers Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin)
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"I believe he hired her to convince himself that he doesn't have a problem with women." -- An observation by a man who prefers to remain anonymous, at least for the time being ...
"Never miss a good chance to shut up." -- from Don't Squat With Yer Spurs On! A Cowboy's Guide to Life by Texas Bix Bender
"Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem." -- seen on a Fermi Labs bulletin board
"Support the people not the technology." -- Derek Wilson (1954-)
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" "Who watches the watchmen?" -- Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
"A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person." -- from 19 Things That It Took Me 50 Years To Learn by Dave Berry
"A millihelen is defined as precisely that amount of beauty required to launch exactly one ship." -- unknown
"The rich get richer and the poor get . . . children." -- Richard Whitney, 1921 song Ain't We Got Fun
"It takes a brave man not to be a hero in the Red Army." -- Joseph Stalin
"What I find is different from what is mine." -- unknown
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. -- Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969)
"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private schools, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the state and church forever separated." -- Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke (1917-), Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
"How can you buy or sell the earth?" -- Ted Perry, screenwriter, 1971, unwittingly attributed to Chief Seattle, a Suquamish Indian
"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth." -- Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
"If God did not want them shorn He would not have made them sheep." -- Calvera, 1960 movie The Magnificent Seven, screenplay by William Roberts
"Don't tie your shoes in a watermelon patch." -- Chinese Proverb
"Tree Hugger Dirt Worshiper" -- bumper sticker
"Although it does not mindfully keep guard, in the small mountain fields, the scarecrow does not stand in vain." -- Bukkoku Kokushi (1256-1316)
"When a man's best friend is a dog, that dog has a problem." -- Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
"Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix." -- Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)
"The oxen are slow but the earth is patient." -- 1983 movie High Road to China, screenplay by Jon Cleary, S. Lee Pogostin & Sandra Weintraub Roland
"There is no mistake so great as that of being always right." -- fortune cookie
"The end is in the beginning and yet you go on." -- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Endgame
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"The gods have their own rules." -- Ovid [born Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 BC-17 AD), Roman poet, Metamorphoses
"There is more to life than increasing its speed." -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth." -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) reflecting on the death of Mohandas Gandhi
"Men sat there, gaping, gasping / at his strange unearthly sheen, / as if a ghost were passing, / for every inch was green." -- From Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translation by Paul Dean
"Nature is not governed except by obeying her." -- Francis Bacon, 1620, Novum Organum
"We have not inherited the world from our forefathers, we have borrowed it from our children." -- Kashmiri proverb
"Don't believe your own hype." -- Mary E. V. McClanahan
"No rest for the wicked and the good don't need any." -- unknown
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
"As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Unfortunately, lawmakers don't believe in the laws of physics or mathematics, only their own laws. When will the emperor discover that he has no clothes?" -- unknown
"To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour." -- William Blake (1757-1827), Auguries of Innocence
"Not in my name." -- anti-war protest sign (re: US/Iraq) held by a US citizen in Italy, 2002
"Yesterday upon the stair / I met a man who wasn't there. / He wasn't there again today / Oh how I wish he'd go away." -- Hughes Mearns (1875-1965)
"The noble art of Losing Face
may one day save the Human Race
and turn into eternal merit
what weaker minds would call disgrace."
-- Piet Hein (1905-1996), Danish Poet
"One lesson I have learned over the years: You cannot solve every problem -- particularly if the problem isn't yours to begin with." -- Jeanne Phillips, Dear Abby, Saturday, February 8, 2003
"University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable." -- Sir Peter Imbert, British police commissioner. Times (London, Oct. 11, 1992)
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." -- Jimmy Carter (1924-), 39th President of the United States, awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, extract from his Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2002, Copyright The Nobel Foundation 2002
"War is sweet to those who have never tasted it." -- Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536)
"War begins with 'Dubya'." -- sign seen in Washington, D.C., during the peace march on January 18, 2003
"Don't waive your rights while waving your flag." -- sign seen in Washington, D.C., during the peace march on January 18, 2003
"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood." -- Fred Rogers (1928-2003)
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." -- Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)
"You think that good is hating what is bad. What is bad is the hating mind itself." -- Bon Kai, Buddhist monk
"Anger is only one letter short of danger." -- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
"In Germany they came first for the Communist, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. They came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." -- Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984), a German Lutheran pastor who was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp in Dachau in 1938. He was freed by the Allied Forces in 1945.
"Putting a flag on your SUV is not a sacrifice. It's patriotism lite." -- Charles Moskos, Military Sociologist at Northwestern University
"Almost anything you do seems insignificant. It is very important that you do it. You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them." -- Suzanne Necker (1739-1794)
"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." -- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"A terribly difficult lesson to learn is that some questions don't have answers." -- Katherine Graham (1917-2001)
"If you think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito." -- Betty Reese
"Women constitute half the world's population, perform nearly two-thirds of its work hours, receive one-tenth of the world's income and own less than one-hundredth of the world's property." -- United Nations report, 1980
"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause." -- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." -- Voltaire, a pseudonyum of Francois Marie Arouet (1694-1778)
"Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils." -- Roger Williams (1603-1683)
"I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. -- Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969)
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." -- Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
"The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently." -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn." -- from the poem Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day by Delmore Schwartz (1913-)
"Our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. -- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." -- Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN, (1779-1820), April 1816, Norfolk, Virginia
"Our country right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right." -- Carl Schurz (1928-1906), German-born U.S. General and U.S. Senator, 1871
"'My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'" -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), British author, 1901
"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." -- Ralph W. Sockman, 17th century theologian
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." -- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
"It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one." -- Voltaire, a pseudonyum of Francois Marie Arouet (1694-1778), Zadig
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. -- Anatole France (1844-1924), French author, The Red Lily, ch. 7 (1894)
"One for the rock, one for the crow, One to die, and one to grow." -- English saying re planting seeds
"[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs... but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base." -- Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, (First edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), p. 54.
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." -- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." -- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
"First things first, but not necessarily in that order." -- Doctor Who, BBC programme running from 1963 to 1996
"My little old dog: / A heart-beat / At my feet." -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937), In Provence and Lyrical Epigrams, _Yale Review_ vol. 9 (January, 1920), 346-348.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana (1863-1952), U.S. philosopher, poet, Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense, ch. 12, (1905-6).
"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." -- Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958), Spanish writer, awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature
Stapp's Ironical Paradox, AKA Stapp's Law: "The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle." -- Colonel John Paul Stapp, M.D. (1910?-1999)
"If it can happen, it will happen." -- Murphy's Law, the original, as related by George Nichols
"You are the star for which all evenings wait." -- Dove Dark Promises wrapper, copyright Mars, Inc
"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" -- Gold Hat, as played by Alfonso Bedoya, 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, screenplay by B. Traven and John Huston
"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!" -- Mexican Bandit, 1974 film Blazing Saddles, screenplay by Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Unger
"War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell." -- General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), Graduation address at Michigan Military Academy, June 19, 1879
"In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children." -- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
"This nation is like all the others -- ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket." -- Mark Twain, a pseudonym of Samuel Clemens (1835-1910)
"In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will exist." -- Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969)
"Never take counsel of your fears." -- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863)
"Abandon your animosities. . . . Make your sons Americans." -- Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), 1865, after Appomattox
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), the twenty-sixth President of the United States (1901-1909), "Editoral" Kansas City Star. May 7, 1918.
"Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does." -- Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." -- Salvor Hardin, in the novel Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
"All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood to do the fighting for them." -- Emma Goldman (1869-1940), 1917
"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others." -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
"Men will not be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -- Voltaire, a pseudonyum of Francois Marie Arouet (1694-1778)
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it." -- S.I. Hayakawa (1906-1992)
"Religion is the enemy of truth." -- Richard Dawkins (1941-), biologist
"Joseph McCarthy proved [that] the more ridiculous the charge, the less possibility there is of defense." -- John Steinbeck (1902-1968), awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1962, America & Americans
"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Gradually but unmistakably America is showing signs of that arrogance of power -- the tendency of great nations to equate power with virtue and major responsibilities with a universal mission -- which has affected, weakened and in some cases destroyed great nations in the past. In so doing, we are not living up to our capacity and promise as a civilized example for the world; the measure of our falling short is the measure of the patriot's duty of dissent. And, in a democracy, dissent is an act of faith." -- Sen. J. William Fulbright (1905-1995)
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." -- Bert Lantz
"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication." -- Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), The Medium is the Massage
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Life is short, but wide." -- Spanish proverb
"In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails." -- Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973), Liberalism in the Classical Tradition, chapter 1 section 10
"All men desire peace, but very few desire those things which make for peace." -- Thomas à Kempis (b. 1379 or 1380, d. 1471)
"Beware of the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry, [who] infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How will I know? For this I have done. And I am Julius Caesar." -- widely attributed, especially on the Internet, to Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC) but the attribution has not been verified
"Man is born free but is everywhere in chains." -- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." -- Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason, and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, accept it and live up to it." -- Gotama Buddha (563 BC - 484 BC) (born Prince Siddhartha)
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"The Government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." (1796) -- George Washington (1732-1799), the first President of the United States (1789-1797)
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of the rich men in the country." -- John Adams (1735-1826)
"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves." -- Lane Joseph Kirkland (president AFL-CIO, 1980-95)
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." -- Helen Keller (1880-1968)
"You can complain because rosebushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." -- Lao Tse (b. 604 BC)
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"Clothes make the man; naked people have little or no influence in society." -- Mark Twain, a pseudonym of Samuel Clemens (1835-1910)
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms." -- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." -- Mohandas Gandhi, An Autobiography, pg 446
"Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection, and not to be upset by a few scratches on your car. -- Will Stanton
"i pensieri stretti, ed il viso scioltoi" "thoughts close, and looks loose" [closed thoughts and an open face] -- Sir Henry Wotton, advice to Samuel Milton, G. B. Hill's edition of Lives of the English Poets, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905)
"Illegitimi Non Carborundum" "Don't let the bastards grind you down" -- General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's motto in World War II, William Safire's New Political Dictionary : The Definitive Guide to the New Language of Politics Random House, New York, 1993
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable." -- Howard Zinn, Terrorism Over Tripoli, 1993, from The Zinn Reader, Seven Stories Press
"And the sea will grant each man new hope as sleep brings dreams of home." -- Christopher Columbus
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." -- Mark Twain, a pseudonym of Samuel Clemens (1835-1910)
"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." -- Ansel Adams
"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves." -- Will and Ariel Durant
"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master." -- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
"There are four sorts of men:
He who knows not and knows not he knows not : he is a fool - shun him;
He who knows not and knows he knows not : he is simple - teach him;
He who knows and knows not he knows : he is asleep - wake him;
He who knows and knows he knows : he is wise - follow him."
-- An Arabian Proverb (Lady Burton, 1890) [Lady Isabel Arundell Burton, The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton]
"Associate not with evil men, lest you increase their number." -- a paraphrase of George Herbert (1593-1633), Outlandish Proverbs, 310. "Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number."
"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people." -- Alexander Bullock, 1936 movie My Man Godfrey screenplay by Morrie Ryskind and Eric Hatch based on Hatch's short novel 1011 Fifth Avenue
"We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens." -- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, HAMDI et al. v. RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, et al., on writ of certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the fourth circuit, June 28, 2004.
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time." -- Voltaire, a pseudonyum of Francois Marie Arouet (1694-1778)
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
"You don't have to believe everything you think." -- bumper sticker, seen 2004-12-30
"Don't believe everything you think." -- bumper sticker, seen circa 2005
"When a man marries his mistress he creates a vacancy." -- Sir James Goldsmith (1933-1997)
"I have a zest for living, yet twice an urge to die." -- Errol Flynn (1909-1959)
"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all law-religions, or religions established by law." -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809), The Rights of Man, 1791
"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: one is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell; the other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on Earth and you should save it for someone you love." -- Attributed to Butch Hancock (1945-), The Flatlanders
"Never get into an argument with a preacher or a newspaper; the preacher always calls on heaven as witness that he is right, and the newspaper always has the last word with its readers." -- Hugh Doggett Scott, Jr. (1900-1994), U.S. Congress, Senate, How To Get Into Politics, New York: J. Day Co., 1949.
"When you revise history you lose it." -- Roger Ebert, interviewed by Scott Simon, Weekend Edition Saturday, National Public Radio, Saturday, July 2, 2005.
"Wear your disfunctional childhood with pride." -- A sign in a tatoo parler, circa 2004
"What do we live life for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" -- George Eliot, pseudonym for Mary Ann Cross, also Marian Evans, original surname Evans (1819-1880)
"Never listen to a woman's tears, Charlie Brown." -- Lucy Van Pelt, in the comic strip Peanuts, Sunday, September 28, 1969, and (repeated) Sunday, September 25, 2005, Charles Monroe Schulz (1922-2000)
"The opposite of pro is con;
That fact is clearly seen;
If progress means move forward,
Then what does Congress mean?"
-- Nipsey Russel (1924-2005)
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"carpe noctem" ("seize the night") -- seen on a college shirt, spring semester 2006
"Never attribute to malice that which can satisfactorily be explained by incompetence." -- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), attributed
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -- Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, Pa, the quote is known as Hanlon's Razor;
"Murphy's Law book two: More reasons why things go wrong!" by Arthur Bloch,
page 52, chapter entitled "Advanced Expertsmanship",
1980, Price/Stern/Sloan Publishers, Inc.
"Oh! Tis a fearful thing to love what death can touch" -- inscribed on the tombstone of Edna M. Spink (1845c-1870), Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
"Truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions." -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Learn to wait in line." -- common saying
"... the eternal struggle of hope over experience." -- Paul Atterbury, Antiques Roadshow (B.B.C.) in King's College, Cambridge on Thursday, 29th July, 2004; broadcast on KRMA-TV, PBS, Thursday, June 29, 2006, as Antiques Roadshow U.K.
"A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience." -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath." -- Michael Caine (1933-)
"Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end." -- Legolas, in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Book 3, Chapter 5: The White Rider, by J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
Jarosaw Rzeszstko: "What do you think is the most important skill every programmer should posses?"
Tim Bray: "Ability to prefer evidence to intuition."
-- from an interview by Jarosaw "sztywny" Rzeszstko, "Stiff asks, great programmers answer", http://www.stifflog.com/2006/10/16/stiff-asks-great-programmers-answer/
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education." -- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), Thirty-Fifth President of the United States (1961-1963)
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." -- Henry A. Kissinger (1923-)
"Blind faith in incompetent leadership is not patriotic." -- bumper sticker, seen January 2007
"Freud: If it's not one thing it's your mother." -- Robin Williams (1951-), American Actor
"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)
"So it goes." -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007)
"Lord, help me to be the person my dog thinks I am." -- bumper sticker, seen 2007-04-27
"No legacy is so rich as honesty." -- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), All's Well That Ends Well, Act 3 scene 5
"Be nice to America or we'll bring democracy to your country." -- bumper sticker, seen 2007-06-11
"I don't just hug trees, I kiss them, too." -- bumper sticker, seen 2008-03-13
The MDL entry in The Language List:
MDL - (originally "Muddle"). C. Reeve, C. Hewitt & G. Sussman, Dynamic Modeling Group, MIT ca. 1971. Intended as a successor to Lisp, and
a possible base for Planner-70. Basically LISP 1.5 with data types and arrays. Many of its features were advanced at the time (I/O, interrupt
handling and coroutining), and were incorporated into later LISP dialects ("optional", "rest" and "aux" markers). In the mid 80's there was an
effort to use bytecoding to make the language portable. CLU was first implemented in MDL. Infocom wrote Zork in MDL, and used it as the basis
for the ZIL interpreter. "The MDL Programming Language", S.W. Galley et al, Doc SYS.11.01, Project MAC, MIT (Nov 1975). Implementations
exist for ITS, TOPS-20, BSD 4.3, Apollo Domain, SunOS and A/UX.
(The Language List is an attempt to enumerate all known programming languages.
It is maintained by Bill Kinnersley
<billk@cs.ukans.edu>
and is periodically published on comp.lang.misc.)
(If anyone has access to one of the above referred to implementations
I would be interested in hearing from you. -dgb)